Supporting American Indian Students in Pursuing Careers in Medicine and Science: Celebrating Research and Cultural Identity
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor for trainee engagement Lala Forrest (@Lala_Forrest) and guests Drs. Maija Holsti and Sam Hawkins discuss the Native American Research Internship program (@NARI_UofU) at the University of Utah, which is open to Native college students across the United States who are interested in pursuing biomedical careers. They describe the components of the NARI program, including its integration with the local Native elders and tribal nations, and share advice for other institutions looking to support the American Indian students in their communities.
This episo...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 9, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast American Indian medical education Native American research Source Type: blogs
Call for Cover Art: Now Open to July 30, 2021
To celebrate Academic Medicine’s recently redesigned cover with greater space to showcase art from the academic medicine community, we have launched our first call for the Cover Art feature! Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts in art and medicine, including artist Maria Hupfield (https://mariahupfield.wordpress.com/), Academic Medicine Assistant Editor Dr. Arno Kumagai, and ... (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 24, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Annual Call for Cover Art Featured Source Type: blogs
Call for Cover Art: Now Open May 3 to July 30, 2021
To celebrate Academic Medicine’s recently redesigned cover with greater space to showcase art from the academic medicine community, we have launched our first call for the Cover Art feature! Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts in art and medicine, including artist Maria Hupfield (https://mariahupfield.wordpress.com/), Academic Medicine Assistant Editor Dr. Arno Kumagai, and ... (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 24, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Annual Call for Cover Art Featured Source Type: blogs
Call for Cover Art: Open May 3 to July 30, 2021
The January 2021 issue of Academic Medicine featured a bold new cover design—our first redesign in more than 20 years! The new design allows more space to showcase original artwork with a connection to academic medicine. With the new design, we are also excited to launch a new approach to selecting Cover Art. Beginning this year, we will hold an annual call for Cover Art submissions. Our first call will open May 3, 2021!
Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of experts in art and medicine, including artist Maria Hupfield (https://mariahupfield.wordpress.com/), Academic Medicine Assistant Editor Dr. Arno Kumagai, an...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 24, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Annual Call for Cover Art Featured Source Type: blogs
The Education Portfolio: Reflecting on the Past to Move Forward
As I entered my final year of training and saw dozens of colleagues go through a professional development plateau, I wanted to be proactive in approaching my transition to a faculty role. That’s where my Educator’s Portfolio (EP) (compared to a traditional curriculum vitae (CV) in an Academic Medicine Last Page I coauthored) came into play. Having used my CV as the starting point for my early EP draft, I initially perceived the EP to be documentation of my past successes in education. However, the EP challenged me to seriously reflect on achievements in a more critical way, in how these could be interwoven to make a co...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 23, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective graduate medical education professional development Source Type: blogs
Resident Well-Being During COVID-19 and Beyond
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and assistant editor Dr. Will Bynum (@WillBynumMD) and guests Drs. Mike Kemp, Samantha Rivard (@rivardsj), and Joceline Vu (@jocelinevu) discuss the clinical learning environment and resident well-being during COVID-19. They describe efforts by the University of Michigan Department of Surgery to support trainee wellness during COVID and how their work will continue beyond the pandemic.
This episode is now available through the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Read the article discussed in this episode, “Trainee Wellness and Safety in th...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - February 9, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Trainee Perspective Academic Medicine podcast COVID-19 learning environment residents well-being Source Type: blogs
Putting Our Steps to Practice: Practical Advice for Publishing Medical Education Scholarship
Writing medical education scholarship for publication is a rewarding opportunity for clinician-educators. However, it can also be challenging to know the proper format or steps needed to take curricular changes to the next level. To supplement our Academic Medicine Last Page, “Propelling Educational Innovations to Publication in Five steps,” my coauthors have provided practical guidance, described by each of the 5 steps outlined in the infographic, to help readers learn from our collective experience.
Michael S Ryan, MD, MEHP, Department of Pediatrics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
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Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 26, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Journal Staff Tags: Featured Guest Perspective innovations medical education scholarship scholarly publishing Source Type: blogs
The Opposite of Loneliness: Medical Student Mobilization During COVID-19
What is the opposite of loneliness? According to student-author Marina Keegan,1 there is no single word in the English dictionary to describe this feeling. And yet, it is the way that I, a fourth-year medical student, have felt since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In mid-March 2020, medical students were pulled virtually overnight from their clinical responsibilities. Instead of pitying themselves, students from all over the country joined forces to mobilize, as documented in a recent Academic Medicine article.2 Volunteer efforts, advocacy initiatives, and research all became available outlets for students, who had...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 12, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective COVID-19 medical students trainee Source Type: blogs
Dismantling Structural Racism: Time to Abandon Medical School Rankings
As one of us (R.S.) wrote in a recent Academic Medicine commentary, structural racism is pervasive in academic medicine, and institutions need to take bold action. Schools must implement comprehensive anti-racist policies and practices across all lines, from curricular reform, to promotion of diversity and inclusion at all levels, to building systems of accountability. Such work takes time, and change will not happen overnight. However, we propose one simple, bold action that schools can take immediately to show their commitment to ending structural racism: decline to participate in the U.S. News & World Report (USNWR)...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 29, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective medical school rankings medical schools racism Source Type: blogs
To Improve Medical Education, We Must First Confront Our Field ’s History
In our Academic Medicine article,1 we discuss how medical curricula perpetuate inequity by describing racial differences as matters of scientific fact. As medical students, we have seen lectures demonstrating biological differences rooted in race—a social construct—including that Black people have increased risk for developing glaucoma.1 We have seen race used in medical curricula to teach us and our classmates heuristics in order to guide our thinking. However, these mental shortcuts (used to direct a diagnosis or make a treatment plan) promote racism within medical culture at best and do harm to Black patients at wor...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 15, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective curriculum reform medical education racism social justice Source Type: blogs
Underrepresented Students ’ and Physicians ’ Experiences in Medicine
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee chair Dr. Zareen Zaidi talk to guests Drs. Justin Bullock and Joseph Mpalirwa about their research on the experiences of underrepresented medical students and physicians in the United States and Canada. This is the final episode in a 3-part series of discussions with RIME authors about their medical education research and its implications for the field.
This episode is now available through the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Read the articles discussed in this episode, “They Don’t...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 8, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast bias discrimination racism Research in Medical Education RIME stereotype threat Underrepresented in Medicine Minority Faculty URM Source Type: blogs
A Review of the Literature Related to the USMLE
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Dr. Daniel Schumacher talk to guests Drs. Hanin Rashid, Kristen Coppola, and Robert Lebeau about their scoping review of the literature related to the USMLE Step exams and what their findings could mean for medical students, the medical school curricula, and the resident selection process. This is the second episode in a 3-part series of discussions with RIME authors about their medical education research and its implications for the field.
This episode is now available through the Apple Podcasts app and wh...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 1, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast Research in Medical Education RIME USMLE Source Type: blogs
How Physicians Navigate Uncertainty in Clinical Situations
On the Academic Medicine Podcast, hosts Toni Gallo and Research in Medical Education (RIME) Committee member Dr. Justin Sewell and guest Dr. Jonathan Ilgen discuss how physicians navigate uncertain clinical situations and their comfort with that process. This is the first episode in a 3-part series of discussions with RIME authors about their medical education research and its implications for the field.
This episode is now available through the Apple Podcasts app and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Read the article discussed in this episode, “‘I Was Worried About the Patient, But I Wasn’t Feeling ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 24, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Audio Featured Guest Perspective Academic Medicine podcast emergency medicine Research in Medical Education RIME uncertainty Source Type: blogs
From 5 Questions to 5 Reflections: A Residency Leadership “Sign-Out” During COVID-19—Part 2
Editor’s note: This is the second of a 2-part blog post. Read the first part of this blog post, with an introduction and the first 3 reflections, here.
4. A crisis reveals the flaws of how we assign value.
Scholarly output is an important part of what we do in academic medicine. We balance the tasks of running our program, caring for patients, and teaching with individual pursuits: research, curriculum development, implementation science, or quality improvement. During the pandemic, many of these academic efforts were necessarily placed on hold. This impacted some more than others, along the predictable lines of ge...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 17, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective COVID-19 leadership residency Source Type: blogs
From 5 Questions to 5 Reflections: A Residency Leadership “Sign-Out” During COVID-19—Part 1
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part blog post. Check back next week for the second-part of this blog post with the final 2 reflections.
As a chief resident and program director in our internal medicine residency program, we set out at the end of academic year 2019–2020 to prepare the annual sign-out for the incoming chief medical residents and launch a new academic year. This exercise is typically straightforward, a practice refined over years of repetition. However, this academic year had been defined by the sentinel crisis of the entire medical enterprise: the COVID-19 pandemic. In this two-part blog ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 10, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective COVID-19 leadership residency Source Type: blogs
